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Home Business Scams – Tips On Avoiding Home Business Scams

Maybe the reason you’re interested in setting up a home business is because you’ve seen an Ad that caught your eye. Perhaps you were approached by a friend or colleague about a great home business opportunity.

Whatever the reason for your interest it got those entrepreneurial juices started to flow. Your imagination starts to flow as well and dreams of quitting your 9 to 5 job fill your every thought.

Hello, hey, ok… time to stop dreaming. I hate to burst your bubble or stop your fantasy ride but before you give your boss a piece of your mind there’s a few things you need to consider.

First, you need to realize that there is a pretty high percentage of home business / work from home job offers out there are flat out scams. After all, if it was that easy to pay a few dollars and make thousands, wouldn’t everyone be doing it by now and why tell you about it?

Work Home Scams

Below I’ve listed and briefly discussed how to recognize and avoid a few of the biggest scams out there.

Location… Location… Location

Check out every offer and assume it’s a scam until you have iron-clad proof that it’s not. A few things to consider are: Where did you see that work from home offer? If you got it by traditional mail or by email or saw it on a poster taped around a telephone pole, then I can guarantee you right now that it’s not a legitimate offer. On the other hand, if you saw the Ad in a newspaper, in a jobs magazine or on a jobs website, then it’s a little more likely to be legitimate.

Envelope Stuffing Job From Home

Will this scam ever end? Well, not until people stop falling for it. This is the most established work-from-home scam of all time and it’s been going on for what seems like forever now.

How it works is that once you pay your money and sign up to work from home, you are sent a set of envelopes and Ads just like the one you responded to. The whole idea is to simply get names of people who are interested in home business opportunities and get a quick buck. You could make a little money if you mail to the right mailing list but don’t count it. Work from home offers like this are simply illegal pyramid schemes. You will not make money putting letters into envelopes – so get over it and move on!

How To Avoid Home Business Scams

Shoddy Supplies

The practice of charging for supplies is hard to pin down to any one scam – it’s common in most work-at-home scams work (including the envelope stuffing scam job mentioned above).

You’ll be asked to make a minimal “investment” for whatever materials will be needed to do the work and then you’ll receive a collection of very shoddy materials that are worth a fraction of what you paid for them. Last but not least you’ll soon realize that there was never a market for work anyway.

Don’t walk away – run… if anyone asks for money upfront. Any company worth it’s salt would be willing to deduct any “fees” from your first paycheck. Any company not willing to do that, is in all likely-hood simply out to scam you into giving them some upfront money and then you never hear from them again.

Working for Free

This variation on the scam is common with crafts. You might be asked to work from home making clothes, ornaments, jewelry or toys. Everything appears to be legitimate. You received materials without paying any money and you’re doing the work. Unfortunately for you, when you send the work back, the company will tell you that it didn’t meet their “quality standards”. They will refuse to pay you. They will then sell what you’ve provided and move on to the next sucker.

Never do craft type work from home unless you’re making and then selling the items yourself. Remember, you don’t need to restrict your sales to consumers only… you could also be selling to wholesalers. The bottom line is this, you need to be the one deciding what you make and then collect the money yourself.

Medical Billing, Typing Jobs From Home

Many work-from-home scams involve persuading you that some industry has more work to do than it can handle and so it has to outsource to people like you, working from home.

For example, you might be told that you’ll be typing legal documents or entering medical bills into an electronic database. These scams have one thing in common – they all say that all you need is a computer and they go on to explain that all you need to do to make big bucks is to buy some “special software”.

The software is package so it appears to be from a completely unrelated company, but don’t be fooled – the whole purpose behind this so-called opportunity is to simply sell you the over-priced and worthless software. And of course, once you open and load the software on your computer you will never get your money back because that’s how all software guarantees work. Once you break the seal you own it.

Starting your own home based business is a dream that millions of people have and it is a legitimate and worthy endeavor. Unfortunately, the crooks out there know this and they play on these desires and so you need to be very cautious.

Remember, starting a home business that involves “working” for another company isn’t the best idea even if they offer a completely legitimate opportunity. The reason is because even if they do pay you for your work, you still won’t earn anywhere near the income you could if you were to start a home-based business where you created your own product or service. So why even bother with these outside companies at all?

There you have it folks and I hope that at least I have given enough info so you will steer well clear of those Scams.

Home Based Business Opportunities

As I said a couple of times you are much better having your own products or at least your own website so that you can sell or promote product or service. Of course this takes time and upfront money to get you up and running.

But did you know you can find programs that will give you a start and the initial training for nothing. There are a few that will even give you a free website and host it for you on the net.

Of course you still have to do the work, no such thing as a free lunch, right! But when you find a program like that then its well worth your while to at least take a look and see exactly what it is they’re offering.

One such program is Wealthy Affiliate and they do give you a free website. They will also give you free hosting and video lessons to get you started. So as I said its worth taking a look so you get the full picture just what it is the program can do for you.

Here is a link to another article that explains how to get started. There is also a video at the top right of this page you can watch. Then the decision is yours whether you would like your own online business you can run from home or stick to the 9 to 5 you have now, or the unemployment queue.

Hopefully you will choose to go and take a look, but at the very least take some kind of action or you will still be in the same situation tomorrow as you’re in today.

Whatever you do I wish you a very nice day.

Robert Allan

PS

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4 thoughts on “work home jobs that are not scams”

I do try to include as much information as I can find with my research.

That way people who visit my site are sure to receive an overall picture instead of little snippets of info like you see in a lot of reviews.

I have read a lot about Bitcoin and although its supposed to be the new wave of training currencies and also buying and selling there are sure to be a lot of unscrupulous people out there waiting to take advantage of people who don’t understand the concept.

Take care and do your due diligence if you want to take this enterprise further.

same goes for Free Work From Home Opportunities.

I tried this many years ago and was ripped off.

Needless to say I have never been taken in again and I advise everyone who asks me to stay well away unless they have their own ideas and product they want to promote and sell.

Its always best to have your own website for this as well.

Wealthy Affiliate can kickstart your online career whatever product or service you own.

If not then the excellent training will get you up and running in whatever area of online marketing you believe you would be good at and have the skillset for.

Again if you don’t have any then WA will give you all the step by step training you will ever need to be a successful home business owner.

I have been with WA since 2013 and there are many members like myself although a lot leave once they have finished the training and have achieved success.

It is worth taking the seven day free trial to see if its for you and if not then you leave and no harm done.

Saying this you can stay as a free member for as long as you want to and you get to keep the two free websites.

Perhaps you should take the free trial and find out if its for you or not.

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Hi Buddy,
I just want to say a massive thank you for this article. I found everything so helpful and really enjoyed watching your video. When you were talking about ABCs of building your business it makes sense. Its also true that you should never give out your money, because I got ripped off for a bit coin scam recently. I was actually really considering building crafts from home as well, but i am glad I found this information, it sounds like another one of those waste of time scams.
Wealthy affiliate sounds like it could be really good, have you been with them for long? Thanks,
Freddy

Hi Ilias and thank you for taking the time to read my article on scams and working from home.

Unfortunately there are a lot of scams and again unfortunately a lot of people do not recognize them as such until its too late and just like you they lose money.

It does pay to do your due diligence and research, and research some more until you are 100% sure you are not going to be ripped off.

There are also a lot of those Working For Free type scams.

I remember many years ago I tried it and the jewelry that I had created wasn’t sent back and I did get that standard reply that the work wasn’t up to the company’s standard. Needless to say I never did it again.

If you followed the link to Wealthy Affiliate and read the web page information you will know that WA is not a scam simply because it doesn’t give you money for doing something.

It is a training program that shows you how to make money online and at home.

They also give you free websites, free hosting and free lessons to get you started.

I hope you have taken advantage of these free offers and you get in touch with me.